It kindled a love of the over-the-top gothic horror that defined a lot of Games Workshop's earlier works. It was the former two, especially The Lost and the Damned which had a lasting influence upon me.
There was also this super dorky book called Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987) that made less of an impression, but this Emperor-guy was pretty cool for desiccated corpse. This is how I got to sit down with the seminal works Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness (1988) and it's sequel Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (1990). Grandfather Nurgle always looks so jolly. You can guess what happened next - I snuck off with as many books as I could carry. All of that stuff (along with most of his furniture) just-so happened to get moved to the front hallway while she tried to delaminate the layers of accumulated boy-stink from the walls. My ever industrious mother decided to take the opportunity to deep-clean the dungeon in which he slept. That was until he went off on some school trip for a weekend. Oh, I would get to see him reading it from time to time, but sibling territoriality ensured I never got within six feet of those books, which only drove my curiousity further. As the starry eyed, overly enthusiastic and horribly destructive younger sister, I was of course banned from having access to this stuff which was squirreled away in his room. The source books were among the many edgy things my older brother collected, including Dungeons & Dragons, alternative comics and weird figurines. Despite the years between us, I did my utmost to try and keep up. Everything he did was immediately fascinating. My older brother was a huge influence on me when I was little. Please be aware their performance (and their spelling) may change in the future.įor those unaware, I have a long history of fandom with Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 settings. To the best of my knowledge the statistics discussed in this review are accurate as of patch 0.9.5. These ships have been provided to me by Wargaming at no cost to myself. The following is a review of Ignis Purgatio & Ragnarok, the twin tier VIII Japanese premium battleships for the Warhammer 40,000 crossover.
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